Socio-Psychological Attitudes of Lawyers Who Previously Worked as Investigators

The article presents the findings of the research of socio-psychological attitudes of lawyers who previously worked as investigators. 60 respondents have been surveyed, with 20 of them being lawyers, another 20 being investigators and the remaining 20 were lawyers pre-viously working as investigators. These techniques were used: 1) “Methodology for diag-nostics of personality’s socio-psychological attitudes in the need-motivational sphere” by Potyomkina O.F. 2) “Hope anchors” by Sheyn E. It has been shown that lawyers who previ-ously worked as investigators are focused on their career, fulfillment of their ideals and values in their profession. They strive to use their talents and knowledge to the fullest, to be effective, they have an urge to be free and independent. Among other things, the study con-cludes that one of the subjective reasons for investigators to become lawyers are the distinctive socio-psychological attitudes of their personalities. The results of the study can be useful for psychological interpretations of choice and change of one’s occupation, to pre-vent occupational destructions in people of law professions. They can also be taken into ac-count by psychologists and psychological services when modeling lawyers and investiga-tors’ psychic profiles.

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